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extrospective en · ADJ

Etymology

From extrospect + -ive.

Meanings

1. Involving extrospection.
   • When it comes to understanding the subjective self, Kohut (1959) sees the introspective and extrospective methods as unequal in value. 2013, Ronald R. Lee, J. Colby Martin, Psychotherapy After Kohut: A Textbook of Self Psychology, page 107:
   • In short, the physician shifts from proceeding mostly by the extrospective route toward a combined extrospective and introspective approach toward the patient as a whole human being, thus building toward a person to person, doctor-patient relationship. 1982, Adrian C. Moulyn, The Meaning of Suffering, page 57:

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